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For in his faltring mouth unstable

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No word is firm or sooth;
Their inside, troubles miserable;
An open grave their throat, their tongue they smooth.
God, find them guilty, let them fall

By their own counsels quelld;
Push them in their rebellions all
Still on; for against thee they have rebelld.
Then all who trust in thee shall bring

Their joy, while thou from blame
Defend'At them, they shall ever sing

35 And shall triumph in thee, who love thy name. For thou Jehovah wilt be found

To bless the just man still,
As with a shield thou wilt surround
Him with thy lasting favor and good will.

PS AL. VI. Aug. 13. 1653.

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LORD in thine anger do not reprehend me,

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Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct;

Pity me, Lord, for I am much deject, Am very weak and faint; heal and amend me:

For

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For all my bones, that ev'n with anguilh ake,

Are troubled, yea my soul is troubled fore,

And thou, O Lord, how long? turn Lord, restore My soul, O save me for thy goodness fake: For in death no remembrance is of thee;

Who in the grave can celebrate thy praise?

Wearied I am with sighing out my days, Nightly my couch I make a kind of sea; My bed I water with my tears; mine eye

Through grief consumes, is waxen old and dark

I'th' midst of all mine enemies that mark.
Depart all ye that work iniquity,
Depart from me, for the voice of my weeping

The Lord hath heard, the Lord hath heard iny pray’r,

My supplication with acceptance fair
The Lord will own, and have me in his keeping.
Mine enemies shall all be blank and dash'd

With much confusion; then grown red with shame,

They shall return in haste the way they came, And in a moment shall be quite abalh’d.

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PSAL. VII. Aug. 14. 1653. Upon the words of Chush the Benjamite against him.

In the dust and there out-Spread
Lodge it with dishonor foul.

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Rise Jehovah in thine irė,
Rouse thyself amidst the rage
Of my foes that urge like fire ;
And wake for me, their fury' affwage;
Judgment here thou didft engage
And command which I desire.

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So th'assemblies of each nation
Will surround thee, seeking right,
Thence to thy glorious habitation
Return on high and in their fight.
Jehovah judgeth most upright
All people from the world's foundation.

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Judge me Lord, be judge in this
According to my righteoufnefs,
And the innocence which is
Upon me: cause at length to cease

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Of evil men the wickedness
And their pow'r that do amiss.

But the just establish fast,
Since thou art the just God that tries
Hearts and reins. On God is caft
My defense, and in him lies,
In him who both just and wise
Şaves th'upright of heart at last,

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God is a just judge and severe,
And God is every day offended;
If the unjust will not forbear,
His sword he whets, his bow hath bended
Already, and for him intended
The tools of death, that waits him near.

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(His arrows purposely made he
For them that persecute.) Behold
He travels big with vanity,
Trouble he hath conceiv'd of old

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